Certainly fruit and vegetables are now in heavy supply, and the only way in which these supplies can be cleared is by rapid and substantial reductions in retail prices. Retail prices have, of course, fallen greatly since the very high levels of last spring. For instance, cauliflowers were selling at is. 3¾d. a lb. in the middle of April, and are now selling at 6d. to 6½d. a lb. which is below last year's controlled price. Similarly cabbage was is. 1¼d. a lb., and is now 4½d. a lb. on average. But, as I recently told a conference of the wholesale and retail trade, even these reductions in price are not enough if they do not suffice to clear the market, and I strongly advised them to reduce prices still further. Moreover, in order to encourage them to do so, I have, as already announced, decided to allow anyone who likes to enter the greengrocery retail trade without need of a licence as from 1st September next, and to the greatest extent practicable to free entry into the wholesale trade also.